"If you want this portion, you'll just have to wait for a while. If you want it made separately, you'll have to wait longer."
Faced with this differential treatment, the round-faced palace maid's face alternated between green and white.
She held back her anger and brought the meal back, recounting the events to Concubine Lan. Upon hearing this, Concubine Lan was furious: "I am, after all, an imperial Concubine personally appointed by the Emperor, how dare they treat me like this!"
Among the concubines, there is a hierarchy of ranks; the Emperor's favor is naturally a hard currency, but there is one thing that can be changed at one's discretion, which is the Silver Tael. When Concubine Lan first arrived, she lived well for a while, but then she couldn't meet the Emperor, and she was unwilling to use the Warm Stove Silver, so the food got worse and worse. Her palace maids also received poor treatment when fetching meals.
